Apr 1, 2011
Python, Twitter & April Fools'
Exactly one year ago I played a prank on @ConsumeTea because of one he played on me a few weeks beforehand. Here's what @TimKalic and I did:
Over the course of three and a half weeks, a Python script ran every three minutes via cron and took a picture using the standard iMac webcam. During every iteration, the picture was uploaded to a web server and we cherry-picked the best ones.
Many thousands of pictures later, I converted them to a video, I told him and he loved it. It was even used during a presentation at the second BarCamp Bournemouth.
Here's the video, the cherry-picked picture Twitter account and the code on GitHub.
I love April Fools'.